Doctors

Qualified at the Royal Free Hospital in 1988. She did her vocational training in Oxford and then worked in Community Paediatrics before joining the practice in 1998.

Her special interests are womens' health and family planning. She is a GP trainer and appraiser.

Dr Martin Ballard (m)

Dr Martin Ballard MB, BS, DRCOG, DFFP, MRCGP

Qualified at the University of London in 1995. He completed postgraduate training locally in Basingstoke and Camberley and became a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners in 2004. He's married with a young family.

His special interests are practice development and medical training

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Dr Edward Wernick (m)

Dr Edward Wernick - MBBS, BSc (Hons), MRCGP.

Qualified at St Bartholomew's & The Royal London School of Medicine & Dentistry. On going training was carriedout in Sydney Australia and London. He passed the MRCGP in 2006 and joined the practice in 2008. He is the lead GP for diabetes and runs a joint injection clinic at the practice.

Outside of the practice he is a Governing Body GP and Clinical lead in dementia and frail elderly for North East Hampshire & Farnham CCG.

Dr Leena Das (f)

Dr Leena Das - BSc (Hons), MBBS, DCH, DFFP, MRCGP

Qualified in 1999 from Charing Cross Hospital and Westminster Medical School in London. Dr Das completed her vocational training in Australia and Worcester in 2005. She joined the practice in 2005. Her special interests are sexual health medicine and paediatrics.

Dr Adele Bevan (f)

Dr Adele Bevan - MRCGP, Bcs

Dr Bevan studied Biomedical Science at Kings' College London gaining a BSc. Dr Bevan then went on to study medicine at St George's Hospital London, graduating in 2010. Her foundation training was at Frimley Park Hospital and Downing Street Group Practice was her training practice. After qualifying in 2015, Dr Bevan joined Downing Street as a salaried GP. Dr Bevan Is currently the prescribing lead in the practice.

In her spare time Dr Bevan enjoys walking her dog and plays in the "Back to netball" league.

Dr Thomas Russell (m)

Dr Thomas Russell - MRCGP, MBBS, BSc

Dr Russell qualified from St Georges Hospital Medical School in 2010 and trained at St Richards Hospital Chichester and Frimley Park. He passed the MRCGP in 2015 and joined the practice soon after. He is the practice lead for anticoagulation. He spent a lot of his training years in A+E and paediatrics and is considering further training within general practice.

Outside the practice he enjoys spending time with his young family and outdoor pursuits.

Dr Carolyn Cottrell (f)

Dr Cottrell

Qualified at the University of Nottingham in 2009. She did her vocational training in London and the South East before completing her MRCGP in 2015 and joined the practice in 2017. She is looking to do further training within General Practice in Family Planning and Postgraduate training.

Dr Sabeeha Shakoor (f)

Dr James Hubbard (m)

Dr James Hubbard studied Applied Zoology at the University of Leeds and North Carolina State University before working in the City for a few years. In his late 20's he went to Bart's and the London Medical School to study Graduate Entry Medicine qualifying in 2008. After working in East London for 5 years he became a GP in 2013.

He has since worked in Sydney for 2 years before returning to the UK in 2017 where he took up a locum positing here at Downing Street and became a permanent GP with us in June 2018.

Dr Reshmee Doolub (f)

Dr Reshmee Doolub - MRCGP, MBChB, MSc

Dr Doolub qualified at the University of Manchester in 2013 with a MBChB and a MSc in Healthcare Ethics and Law. She went on to complete her foundation training at Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals, then completed her MRCGP in 2018 after her GP training at Frimley Park Hospital. She is currently pursuing a further postgraduate qualification.

She took up a salaried post at Downing Street Group Practice soon after qualifying as a GP. Her outside interests include dance, theatre food and travel

Nurse Practitioners

Fiona Yardley (f)

RGN, RM, BSc (Hons)

Nurses

Practice nurses are qualified and registered nurses. They can help with issues such as family planning, healthy living advice, blood pressure checks and dressings. The practice nurses run clinics for long-term health conditions such as asthma or diabetes and also carry out cervical smears. Due to the variety of appointment types and skills in our nursing team, these appointments are not bookable online. Please speak to reception for the most appropriate appointment.

Nurse Cathryn Trezise (f)

RGN

Nurse Suzanne Pike (f)

RGN

Nurse Holly Rolfe (f)

Holly joined the practice in 2014 and lives locally.

She has a background in surgical nursing, qualifiying in 2004 from Southampton School of Nursing and Midwifery. She also works part-time as a bowel cancer specialist nurse for a National Charity based in London. Holly enjoys running and walking her dogs in her spare time and hot holidays.

Nurse Sarah Spice (f)

Healthcare Assistants

Healthcare assistants support practice nurses with their daily work and carry out tasks such as phlebotomy (drawing blood), blood pressure measurement, new patient checks, ECGs and some dressings and vaccinations. They may act as a chaperone when a patient or doctor requests one.

Alison Warner (f)

Phlebotomists

Morgan Wainwright-Hockey

Practice Management

Suzanne Nicholls - Practice Manager

Alicia Belford - Deputy Practice Manager

Jo McKinley - Reception Manager

The practice manager is involved in managing all of the business aspects of the practice such as making sure that the right systems are in place to provide a high quality of patient care, human resources, finance, patient safety, premises and equipment and information technology. The practice manager supports the GPs and other medical professionals with delivering patient services and also helps to develop extended services to enhance patient care.

Reception

Receptionists provide an important link for patients with the practice and are your initial contact point for general enquiries. They can provide basic information on services and results and direct you to the right person depending on your health issue or query. Receptionists make most of the patient appointments with the GPs and nurses. They also perform other important tasks such as issuing repeat prescriptions and dealing with prescription enquiries, dealing with financial claims, dealing with patient records and carrying out searches and practice audits.

Community Midwives

In this area we are able to use both the Frimley Park Hospital and Royal Surrey County Hospital Maternity Facilities. Midwives from these two hospitals attend our surgery to deliver ante natal care. Contact numbers:

Health Visitors

A health visitor is a registered nurse who has received training particularly related to babies, children and pregnant women. Their role is to provide families with children under five years old with support and advice around the general aspects of mental, physical and social wellbeing.

Based at Farnham Hospital and Centre for Health - contact number 01483 782093.

Attached Staff

Community Mental Health Team

Services are provided according to age:

For those under 18 years of age and children in full time education, care is provided by the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service. Contact: 01483 783330

Aged 18 - 65 years by the Community Mental Health Team (Adult) 01483 528100

Over 65 by the Community Mental Health Team ( Elderly) 01483 528116

Referral to the above teams can be discussed with your GP. Counselling and psychology services are provided by Guildford and Waverley Primary Care Trust and can be accessed via your GP.